NGC 7047
NGC 7047
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
269 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 269 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 7047 as it looked roughly 269 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 1384Galaxy15 million ly
apartIC 1387Galaxy18 million ly
apartIC 1390Galaxy20 million ly
apartNGC 6977Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6978Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6975Spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1387Galaxy18 million ly
apartIC 1390Galaxy20 million ly
apartNGC 6977Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6978Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 6975Spiral41 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).